Safari: focus event doesn't work on button element

Question

The focus event works fine on all browsers but Safari when it has been clicked.

And it works fine on div[tabindex] element, but don't work on button or input:button element.

It also can get the focus event when I use $('.btn').focus().

Why does the focus event haven't triggered on click ?

Here is my code:

$(".btn").focus(function (e) {
	$(".result").append("<p>Event:"+e.type+", target:"+e.target+"</p>");
})

.result{min-height:200px;border:1px solid #000;}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button class="btn">button 1</button>
<input type="button" class="btn" value="button 2"/>
<div class="btn" tabindex="0">div element</div>
<h1>
Result:
</h1>
<div class="result">

</div>

Solution 1

This might fix the issue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1269767/2731261

$(".btn").mouseup(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
});

Solution 2

Documentation tells is not supported: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/button#Clicking_and_focus

Solution 3

Why does the focus event haven't triggered on click ?

We found through research that Safari and FireFox on Macs do not set focus on buttons when you click on them.

The way we fixed that was to add a click listener to our buttons and call focus() on the button that was clicked.

In Angular it looked like this:

<button (click)="myClickFunction(); $event.target.focus();>My Button</button>

Solution 4

See https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13724

This is working as intended on MacOS. Clicking a button, radio button, or checkbox doesn't give the element focus- thus it can't lose focus and trigger a blur.

The solution is to give it a click event that gives the element focus.

Solution 5

Angular 8+ solution:

1. in your button tag add #toggleButton and (click)="onClick(); $event.stopPropagation()"

exp:

<button #toggleButton type="button"
    (click)="onClick(); $event.stopPropagation()"></button>

2. in your component.ts add ==>before constructor

*** @ViewChild('toggleButton', { static: true }) toggleButton: ElementRef;

---

onclick(){
        this.toggleButton.nativeElement.focus();
}

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Comments

[Woody]

I think that sames like not the same issue. It only reproduce on Safari. What I want is get the focus event on the button when clicked.

[ken]

Well I just found this documentation basically saying Safari does not focus the button after click: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/…

[Manuel]

Old but gold. Thanks. For my particular case, I just changed my button element to div and set its tabindex attribute accordingly (tabindex="1" for me).